@PoisonAero yup. #IronyAlert (a strong, reciprocal altruism has in this case.) (@Outsideness see? now people are starting to understand!)
@Outsideness no. not typically. that's just evolution by natural selection. nothing pathological (abnormal, diseased, etc.) about it.
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@hbdchick@Outsideness The malaria parasite is a product of evolution. Does that mean that there's nothing pathological about malaria? No. -
@PBarbicane altruism is a behavioral trait. plasmodium falciparum is an organism.@Outsideness -
@PBarbicane i didn't say that evolution can't result in organisms that can cause pathologies. obviously it can! just the *average*... -
@PBarbicane ...set of behavioral traits in an entire population are not pathological. -
@hbdchick they could be if they're under the influence of something not present in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness. -
@hbdchick Although on second thought that's probably not true in this case. -
@hbdchick Although on third thought perhaps it is. I'm of two minds about it.
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@hbdchick But you're still insisting on a counter-Darwinian definition of 'pathological'. ... -
@hbdchick ... Medicine should (and will) adjust towards Darwin, not the other way around. ... -
@hbdchick ... Any fitness-independent definition of pathology is unsound, and will be corrected by evolutionary understanding. -
@Outsideness no. not if you understand pathology means diseased. -
@hbdchick ... and diseased means organically dysfunctional.
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